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Menominee (c. 1791 – April 15, 1841) was a Potawatomi chief and religious leader whose village on reservation lands at Twin Lakes, 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Plymouth in present-day Marshall County, Indiana, became the gathering place for the Potawatomi who refused to remove from their Indiana reservation lands in 1838.
Chief Menominee Memorial Site is a historic site located in West Township, Marshall County, Indiana. The memorial site was dedicated in 1909, and includes a triangular park, remains of the replica chapel foundation stones, and the Chief Menominee Monument. The log replica chapel was destroyed by fire in 1920.
By August 5, 1838, the deadline for removal from Indiana, most of the Potawatomi had already left, but Chief Menominee and his band at Twin Lakes refused. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The following day, August 6, 1838, Col. Pepper called a council at Menominee's village at Twin Lakes, where he explained that the Potawatomi had ceded land in Indiana under the ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marshall County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together on a map. [1]
Notawkah (Rattlesnake) was the leader of the village east of the Yellow River, south of Plymouth. He moved to Kansas when chief Menominee refused to leave Indiana in 1837. Mackahtahmoah (Black Wolf) was chief of the western village, near the Starke and Marshall county lines. Pepinawah was another chief among these villages. [13]
The Chief Oshkosh monument is seen Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, at Menominee Park in Oshkosh. Plans to add plaques with more information on the chief and Menominee tribe have been in the works since ...
The removal of the Indiana Potawatomi was documented by a Catholic priest, Benjamin Petit, who accompanied the Indians on the Potawatomi Trail of Death in 1838. Petit died while returning to Indiana in 1839. His diary was published in 1941, over 100 years after his death, by the Indiana Historical Society. [8]
The Oshkosh Common Council will consider revised language Tuesday for five plaques for the Chief Oshkosh statute in Menominee Park. ‘He did way more than just lend his name.’